Norton Antivirus 2006 and AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

[Guest]

If i am planning to upgrade windows xp to windows vista will i be able to
have norton antivrius on windows xp and the vista compatible AVG on windows
vista or will i have to remove norton to allow AVG to work.

Also after i have installed Vista, each time i start my computer will i have
the choice to boot vista or xp?

Help greatly appreciated thanks.

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

If i am planning to upgrade windows xp to windows vista will i be able to
have norton antivrius on windows xp and the vista compatible AVG on
windows
vista or will i have to remove norton to allow AVG to work.

Also after i have installed Vista, each time i start my computer will i
have
the choice to boot vista or xp?

Help greatly appreciated thanks.

If you "upgrade windows xp to windows vista" you will no longer have Windows
XP, so the answers to your questions are, not relevant and no, respectively.
Additionally, you will have to remove Norton and any other program from XP
before you upgrade to Vista.

As a caution, Vista in any of its current versions is not meant for a
computer you rely upon because it is not a final product, still has some
quirks and bugs, has no official support from Microsoft, many hardware
manufacturers and software vendors products will not work with Vista and it
will stop working after the end of May, 2007 with no chance of upgrading
again to the retail product.

Perhaps, if you want to test Vista RC's, you should do some research online
and investigate "dual-boot" installations.

Good Luck!

Mark

 

[Guest]

To add to what Mark said. If you have a spare partition with at least 20GB
you can do a Clean Install of Vista to that partition. Then you would have a
dual-boot system and yes you could retain Norton on the XP partition and use
AVG on Vista.

 

[xfile]

For what I've learned, the current version of NIS 2006 and NIS 2007 are not
compatible with Vista, but Symantec is working on it as many other
anti-virus software providers.

I'm not sure about NIS 2006 or Anti-virus 2006 but I did read from
Symantec's site for an update will be available when Vista is being
released.

You may check with their technical support or web site for additional update
information about 2006 version.

Hope this helps.